The film “Affluenza” has a direct connection to the health of the environment / natural ecosystem by revealing the forces which have dramatically transformed he United states from a nation that believed in plain living and high thinking into the ultimate consumer society. We have more stuff, less time and our quality of life seems to be deteriorating. This film addresses the symptoms of the materialistic self-satisfying disease of affluenza. First as a feeling unfulfillment and I discontent which is a result from efforts to keep up with the Jones’s. Second as an epidemic of stress, waste, overwork, and indebt ness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. Thirdly, Affluenza is described as an unsustainable addiction of economic growth. The effects of this disease ha...